Hat-pin.



PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905.

A. A. MORAE.

HAT PIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 28, 1904.

IN YEN TUE.

WIZ'N'EEEEE.

tlNiTED STATES Patented June 20, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR A. MORAE. OF AL"ILEBORO, MASSAUIIUSETTS, ASS IGNOR TO MeRAE &KEELER, OF A'FLLICWJRO, MASSAUHUSETTS, A F lRM.

HAT-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,019, dated June 20,1905.

Application tiled March 28, 1904:. Serial N- 200,382.

To It HfZI/UHL it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR A. MoRAn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Attlehero, in the county of Bristol and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and uselul Improvement in Hat-Pins,of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in hat-pins, and moreparticularly to an improvement in the method oi securing the head ol"the hat-pin to the pinshank.

The object of my invention is to secure the parts forming the headtogether and to the pin-shank simultaneously without the use of solder.

A further object of my invention is to secure the hat-pin head to thepin-shank more 'tirmly and rigidly than has heretofore been done.

My invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of ahat-pin having a head formed in halves, with coinciding holes in the topand bottom of the halves, a pin-shank having holes coinciding with theholes in the halves 't'orniing the head, and means for se curing thehalves of the head together and to the pin-shank sin'niltaneously,consisting of rivets through the holes in the head and pin shank, aswill be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure l is a face view of the parts lorming my improved hat-pin. Fig. 2is an edge view of the same, showing the parts in the position to besecured together. Fig. 3 is an edge view ol the completed hat-pin. Fig.t is a lace view of the same, and Fig. is an enlarged vertical sectionalview taken lengthwise through the head of the hat-pin and pinshank.

[n the drawings, (1 indicates the pin-shank, I) the head, and c e thetubular rivets for securing the halves of the head together and to thepin-shank.

The pin-shank u is formed of spi'ing\vii'e l and has the usual pointedend a, the (lattened end (L2, in which is the hole a, and the llattenedportion (0, having the hole a, as shown in Fig. 'l.

The head 1) consists of the halves I) b, having the holes in the bottomand the holes I) I) in the top. The halves I) I) are stamped from sheetmetal. to form a hollow head and may be shaped to form an ornamentaldesign, such as shown in Figs. 1 and t.

In assembling the parts forming my im proved hat-pin the end of thepin-shank having the holes (1 and (1 is placed between the halves I) I)of the head, the hole (1 in the pinshank coinciding with the holes I) I)and the hole a in the pinshank coinciding with the holes If in thehalves b I) forming the head. The tubular rivets c c are now passedthrough the holes in the head and pin-shank and riveted.

By the novel construction and arrange ment ol the parts of my improvedhat-pin the pin-shank extends between the halves forming the head andthe head is secured to the pin-shank at the top and bottom of the headby rivets, thus more lirmly and rigidly securing the halves of the headtogether and to the pin-shank simultaneously without solder than hasheretofore been done.

It is evident that the pin-shank could be secured to the head withoutextending it through the head by dispensing with the llattened portion(1 with the hole (t and securing the llattened end (1 with the hole a tothe bottom of the head by a rivet through the hole (1 in the shank andthe holes I) If in the head. In this modified construction the halves7/1) of the head could be secured together at the top by a rivet throughthe holes I) b in the top ol the head without materially all'eeting thespirit of my invention.

llaving thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent In a hat-pin, the hollow head 1) formed of the halvesZ) I) stamped from sheet metal, name to this specification in thepresence of eailhbhilf having the coinciding holes bf b two subscribingWitnesses.

an 3 and means for securim the ha Ves I) I) together and to a pin-shanlconsisting, l ARTHUR MORAE' of the rivets c 0 through the holes b 1) bWitnesses: 7

and the pin-shank, as described. ADA E. HAGERTY,

In testimony whereof I have signed my J. A. MILLER, Jr.

